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All rents follow a standard model based on a number of parameters, but it's purposely constructed to enable lower-income household to aquire apartments in attractive locations. At the time of inception, the construction was considered an alternative to dedicated social housing.

An article on the current situation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/19/why-stockholm-...

I don't think that's true. The private renters also have to abide to the regulated market prices, so you cannot buy your way to a rental apartment. Not unless the renter is breaking the law, that is.

I admit that I pulled the 20 years stats out of a hat. I quickly looked for some stats, and this page suggests around 10 years average for the private market, and 13 years for the communal: https://www.stockholmdirekt.se/nyheter/sa-lange-maste-du-koa...

King, Starbreeze, Paradox, Avalanche

I'm from Sweden and I've consulted a lawyer regarding a similar clause in my employment contract.

That firm suggested that it was enforcable, and more so the closer your "invention" is to the business of your employee.

This, however, does not hold if your invention is patentable, since patentable inventions have special protection in Swedish law.

This is ironically not applicable to software, since we don't have software patents.

Swede here. We have a largely regulated rental market throughout the country, stupid as it is. In my view, this is an old remain from bygone times, but for some reason it is romanticised by many.

With this system you have to stand in line for at least 20 years to get a decent rental apartment in inner-city Stockholm. As you can probably guess, this system doesn't exactly encourage free movement. And it's created a huge black market, plus that it's pushing everyone into buying.

The system is gating the specialists way too much. But the actual care once you are there is usually very good.

Private insurance often just gets you past those gates.

Wait what? I live here too, and many employers do pay for private insurance because it saves heaps of time for the employees. Why do you think the private options sprung up in the first place?

The public system has serious flaws. I was told by the public system to take antibiotics for 6 months straight while waiting for a tonsil removal operation. Got my operation a few days later through my private insurance.

So extend?

Similarly, as Jeff Atwood put it: "performance is a feature"

https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/

Is the article suggesting to apply a string CRDT to an entire JSON structure? Are people doing that?

At the very least, I would expect different JSON data types to use different CRDTs. For a collaborative model, I would expect the semantics of the data model to be reflected in the choice of CRDTs for different substructures in the JSON.

IMO the business school of though is the one which is currently hindering progression, holding on to values from the industrial revolution. It's as we all know a philosophy of top-down management of expendible resources. This way of thinking simply doesn't apply today. We need a breakthrough of the servant leadership way of thinking.

Sure, that gives you working binaries. But also security problems, because you don't control which versions of libraries you are using. Suddenly, all individual software packages must do their own security updates to keep the system secure. So the whole thing is a balance.

It does! It's the numerical "null object", just like the empty string and empty collection.

In my experience, forbidding null refs usually only results in getting null objects instead, such as empty strings or empty collections. Thats not bad, but might not solve such a silent error message, you'll still end up with an empty message in the end. In order to solve it proper, I'm thinking you'd might want to go further and have more expressive type constraints, like Ada subranges.

Sure it's up to the language design, but in practice a `None` gets a similar treatment as an empty collection, usually effectively short-circuiting remaining calculations. As the parent poster pointed out, this might either be the behavior you want, or actually mask the error, depending on the situation. By this logic, optionals aren't better than null refs, just different. The same argumentation holds for exceptions vs optionals.

Arena style allocation helps. You still get the allocations, but GC is cheap. IMO both Java and the CLR are in desperate need of multiple heaps with separate GCs to solve these problems. One big heap simply doesn't scale well. Erlang is the only example I know of that does this right. I know that the golang GC is low-latency, but I'm not familiar with if it can sustain high allocation rates.

I don't know how normalization is done, but I do know that Spotify are very professional when it comes to audio quality. They do double-blind testing with setups by audio engineers to evaluate end-to-end quality when evaluating changes.

Having a steady stream of deliverables and seeing that the devs can deliver on their promises, enables management to shift from control to guidance. That's not to say that it always happens, but I've seen it work.

Getting development done has traditionally been a game of getting developer attention. Scrum is one way of clarifying the contract between the stakeholder and the development team. I'm sure there are others too.

Sprints exist so that both management and devs can realize that there is more work than there is time. It forces devs to be focused and scope their work. It forces management to prioritize and scope down as well.

Keeping the deadline of the sprints is supposed to force management and devs to agree on reasonable scopes, such that the output of the dev team becomes predictable with time.

This enables devs to get trusted by management, breaking the poisonous relationship.

I thought it was scratching a similar itch - simplifying a common everyday task

I'll take this moment to plug the tool 'origin', which plows through aliases and symlinks to find the executable behind a command: https://github.com/atorstling/origin

I'm offended by the removal of the hat! Check mate ;)

If you're one of those persons, where would you look for a job?

The CPU core?

Bedrock sever is available for Linux. No client yet, although there is a hacky launcher which runs the android binary on Linux and works alright.

Scripting for Bedrock is in beta!

I just wanted to reply "Thank you George".

You have misunderstood this movement. It's not about fairness or stopping discriminatory behavior. It's about banning all opinions except the sanctioned one.

"Do not speak unless you are one of us, do not think unless you have been told how to, do not hold us to the same standards as we hold others."

Those should be the mottos of these idiots.

Guilt tripping much? Also, that work ethic attitude isn't exactly healthy, just a chimera confusing bullheadedness with productivity.

Optimistic locking makes better progress than pessimistic locking in a non-heavily-contended case ;P